In late June 2020 the Trump administration deployed federal troops to Portland, Oregon, claiming it needed to restore order to a city riven by chaos and violence. The deployment in fact led to a sharp increase in violence, overwhelmingly by the federal forces themselves, as well as the use of po..
Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta is a journalist who has written for the Washington Post, The Nation, The Daily Beast, The Raw Story, The Guardian, and Jacobin. He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York and author of the upcoming “Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Junk Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry Into Taste” (The New Press).